Sociological Paradigms Of Leisure Research

The paper, using documentary study, probed into the basic content of Leisure and Paradigm's concept of evolution, tried to paradigimize the Leisure Research using the Sociology Perspectives, in order to conducive to Disciplines and Interdisciplinary exchange. Under the call in the traditional classic of sociology and the explanations in the discourse of contemporary sociology, the authors brought forward that Leisure Research could be classified into four paradigms as:Social-Facts which representative theories are Emile Durkheim &Robert K.Merton's Structural Functionalism, Karl Marx& Paul Lafargue's Social Conflict Theory, Sociology of Family & Feminist Theories. Social-Behavior that is a delegate with George C.Homans &Peter M.Blau's Social Exchange Theory. Social-Critique which includes Thorstein B. Veblen's Conspicuous Consumption, Frankfurt School &Jurgen Habermas's The Critical Theory of Society and Social-Definition, Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology, Georg Simmel's Formal Sociology, Symbolic Interaction Theory,Subculture Theory are its representative theories. At the end of the paper, the author presents that in the theory of consumer-society and new means of consumption, these four sociological paradigms are in the move toward integration.